Harald Eide

I am testing out X Plane 12 Beta 7 on these video clips showing the MU 2B 60 by Toga on a flight from ENKL to ENSG. https://youtu.be/1R3qWVmvk6o

Do I look forward to this..??!! Oh yes, I do ! I have flown the X- Plane based MU-2 95% of my sim time since I installed X- Plane in 2016 (...and spent more than a months salary in buying a powerful lap top with enough power to make it run perfect). As for glass cockpits, for sure they're great,- but... nah......I myself stick to good old clocks ( And they will not shut down same way as glass cockpits will when next powerful solar storm hits us... I believe). I have "followed" the MU-2 for more than 40 years, and I am totally hooked on this master piece of a flying machine In X-Plane 10 and 11 I have landed the MU-2 several times at VNLK / Lukla / Nepal. The book says 1950 ft runway is needed at sea level with max weight (MU-2P MU-2B-26A), while VNLK has 1729ft runway at elevation 9334ft. Book says take off distance over 50ft is 1,800 at sea level. Turns out that even if I manage to land and stop at VNLK; I run a bit out of runway when taking off even in headwind. Seemingly landing with a speed of close to 100kts as close to the treshold (read edge !) as possible is needed to be able to stop. Stall speed Vfe (flaps down) is 73kts. Gradient is 11,7% and wind changes normally from morning to afternoon so the pilots flying to and from VNLK arrive before mid day as wind direction then is more or less around head wind for RW24 with uphill landing. During the afternoon the wind changes in favor of downhill take off from RW06. RW24 is not an option for take off anyway as it ends in front of buildings and a steep mountain wall. I suppose that the MU-2 simply has not enough runway with 1729ft at an elevation of 9334ft. (I wonder if the upgraded MU-2 Limited Edition would make it...?) I look forward to do IFR approaches and departures to sometimes very challenging Norwegian short field runways as well, as for instance ENSG and ENSD to mention a few of them.... Looking so much forward for the upgraded MU-2 ! Best regards Harald Eide Norway